"Living Famously - Karen Carpenter" BBC Documentary

Excellent Documentary produced by BBC.

Some great clips and concert footage, as well as interviews by Caroline Corr, Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach, Jerry Moss, John Bettis, Phil Ramone, Frank Pooler, Mike Curb, Randy Schmidt, and others.

Go here for part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM2GHcP_1tg

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[purecleanbeauty]

She is such an icon!!!

[presentiment]

thanks so much for sharing this documentary : )

[vishal8492]

The best singer ever !!!

[rockinrex]

Karen was at her happiest behind drums.

[tisgoner]

I feel for the family and friends Karen Carpenter has left behind. She was born in an age just before body image was starting to be prevalent especially in the entertainment industry. It's a pity she wasn't born in a previous less image concious age. Anorexia is now treatable and that is why she is such a tragic figure. She could have been successfully treated and come out the other side. A very sad figure and you hear it in her singing. Rest in Peace Karen

[doordangle]

you didnt much after 30 dear ... earth is a shit hole, primative and the most un pleasant place in the universe

[fosbury68]

When I saw Mike Walker's face I stopped watching this clip.

[tonto48pronto]

@melizmatea Anna Raeburn has this appalling talent for giving 'sound' (and terribly over-dramatized) advice based on total misreading of events. She's like the wealthy lady arriving at the opera who is approached by a ragged old man who tells her he hasn't eaten for five days. "Then you must force yourself," - she replies.

I no longer live in England so I'm spared seeing Anna Raeburn's awful TV contributions. I was not happy to see her here among an otherwise well-chosen group of contributors.

[alcockell]

Why did Richard yank her out form behind the drums?

Take a look at the drum workshop from Strike up the band... THAT was Karen at her most relaxed.

[melizmatea]

That woman Anna Raeburn is a complete idiot. Talk about supposition! And hyperbole! She's talking out of her ass. I was so irritated by her that I had to replay the first segment to find out who she was, and then discovered that she irritates people all across England as well. She seems to be known for it! Why did they use her in this otherwise good documentary?! And she's so dramatic. She never met Karen and really has no place psychoanalyzing her!

[lesterclaypool1]

@sneyder69

"The media" didn't kill Karen Carpenter, heart complications due to Anorexia Nervosa did and if you know anything about AN you would know that those who suffer it usually come from suffocating families where they have no control. When KC's therapist in New York told Richard that introspection may prove that Karen would no longer wish to sing he was so furious that he still gets angry telling the story today.

If KC had worked as a barmaid she would have still had AN.